Colm Ó Snodaigh

Colm Ó Snodaigh is a member of the traditional Irish folk group Kíla. He is also a writer and a former sportsman, winning honours in football, hurling and tennis.

Born in Dublin and reared on the south side of Dublin near Sandymount, he is a native Irish speaker and was educated at both Scoil Lorcáin and Coláiste Eoin. He completed a degree in Physiotherapy at University College Dublin in 1988.

He is the son of Irish language publisher and author Pádraig Ó Snodaigh and artist Cliodhna Cussen. His brothers are Fergus, Aengus, Cormac, Rónán and Rossa. His great uncle Dennis Cussen ran in the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, in the 100 yards competition, held the world record for fastest time over 100 yards on grass for a time and also played rugby for Ireland 15 times scoring a famous hat-trick of tries against England in 1926.

He plays the flute, tin whistle, guitar, saxophone and percussion. He also sings with the group Kíla and released a solo album titled Giving in 2007 where he sings on all the tracks. The album is a mixture of Colm's own compositions written in both Irish and English and was produced by Shay Fitzgerald. He released another album in 1990 of 10 acoustic pop songs in Irish, entitled Éist. He is currently working on his follow-up to Giving.

He has written one book of short stories entitled Turasóireacht (Tourism) which was published in 1995 by Coiscéim. Subsequent stories have been published in the anthologies Scéalta ón Aer (2000) ag Cathal Póirtéir and in Lón Léitheoireacht 2 (2008). His début novella Pat the Pipe - Píobaire (piper) was published in 2007 and a translation of Sandy Fitzgerald's children's story Céal & an Buachaill Gorm (Cale & the Blue Boy) was published in early 2008. He wrote a monthly article on music for online magazine Beo.ie from 2006-2011 and these articles formed the basis of a collection of esays on music in a book called Istigh sa Cheol. One of the articles An Ghaoth Aneas was included in the New Island publication Sunday Miscellany - A Selection from 2006-08 following its broadcast in 2008 on RTÉ Radio 1. This same article was included, along with a sister article Ag Máirseáil i dTreo na Gréine, as a tribute to Pádraig Ó Cléirigh, in a posthumous collection of Pádraig's short stories published by Coiscéím in 2010, called An Bhréag & Scéalta Eile.

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